DarkWood Acorn Games Video Archive A3010/TV Card

[ShadowEater120880]

Do you have the disk image of this?

[danthake]

This game consumed my life for weeks.. " smoking jacket" hahaha

[RibNSpicY]

Wow, they really were ahead of their times with the graphics on this system!

[WagglyBean]

Brilliant! I got this game one Christmas and loved it, although I never got very far in it as it was slightly unplayable due to not running too well on my A3010.

Was a big fan of Tom Cooper's games back then - I remember many hours playing Hamsters, Gyrinus II, Styx and Lemings.

I wonder what happened to Tom Cooper? Time for a Google-mission I think! :)

[thisissparta1066]

That's Tom Cooper's game, he developed that during his year out at uni. Used to be my housemate in the final year. Worked on Wavelength at the time too with him :D

[HideawayStudio]

I used to adore the music in this game - in fact I recently had an email from the original author. Say hello to Tom... I wrote the music for his game Hamsters :)

Dan.

[oshvision]

It brilliant to see 16-32 bit graphics again running from an ARM processor, the same processor type used in the Sega 32X!!!

[RABBIDGamfan]

Actually, the 32X did not use an ARM. It used a Hitachi SH2 chip.

[saturndual32]

He must mean the 3DO, right?

[saturndual32]

Actually there is a 3DO japanese RPG called Grand Chef that uses ans engine very similr to this when you are expliring the towns. Except that the game i mention is beautifully texturedmapped, uses prerendered sprites for the characters and of course there isnt much action since its an RPG, hehe. Still, the engines seem very similar to me.

[AdamPanic2008]

@saturndual32: The reason it slow on a ARM250 was because it was rendered in 3D textured mapped and ray-traced in completely by the software at runtime, just amazing given the CPU and Graphic capabilities at the time.

[stoysville]

The mixture of 2d sprites and 3d world works pretty well here. Like it!

[bigfatsheila]

this looks great! like a Second Life Prototype!

[VanishedOne]

I remember reading about this in Acorn User years ago... Am I correct in remembering that it had two other playable characters? An archer and a jester I think...